LEAD DESIGNER @Driftrock
Location: GB, LND, London
Department: PRODUCT
Salary range: 45000-50000
Employment type: Full-time
Industry: Internet
Function: Design

Company profile:
Social Media has the power to shape, educate and grow amazing organisations across the world. We're on a mission to make this a reality for everyone, from the street-side cake shop, through to global enterprises.Experiment.We are born experimenters. Everything we do revolves around testing, questioning and breaking away from the norm. Everything from cracking the latest ad formats to changing the way we work.Simplify.Digital media is often confusing, complex and scary when it doesn't need to be. We relentlessly focus on bringing simplicity and practicality to our tools and advice. No wishy washy mindset stuff, just results.Be good.We love nothing more than helping businesses discover an audience. Even the best ideas are nothing unless they are heard. Every month our team helps new startups and charities find their voice online.

Job description:
Driftrock is a well funded London-based startup building the next generation of marketing technology. We use data like the weather, sports results and TV schedules to power ads on social media. We think there’s no longer an excuse for advertising that isn’t relevant, useful and enjoyable!We’re looking for a talented designer join our team. You should have a deep passion for creating beauty through usable, delightful, stunning interface design.  This is a great chance to join at an early stage and have you say in the product development, culture and direction of a fast moving company.You’ll have the freedom to design iteratively, experiment, innovate the platform and multiple apps.THE ROLEOwn the creative direction and implementation of all aspects of design for Driftrock and it’s applications including Branding &amp; Identity, Web, Typography, UI, UX &amp; User TestingWork closely with the Marketing and Engineering teams to implement stunning, simple, usable productsDesign, build, maintain the visual and UI/UX design using techniques like wire-framing, prototyping etcDream up and deliver marketing material for social channels, our events and fun stuff (every full-time team member gets a custom T-shirt design each year)Talk to customers, conduct and interpret usability tests to create user journeys that work

Requirements:
ABOUT YOUEssential:A strong portfolio of web design work. Please send a link when you apply!Strong visual design skills, including layout, typography and colourGood understanding and passion for usability and design patterns.Love agile development, working independently on your own challenges as well as together interfacing with engineers in the team on the bigger visionKeen desire to learn, experiment and push the boundaries on current design thinkingCustomer-driven, and motivated to make people’s lives better through designBe social and have fun. Office culture is important to us. We work in small teams to create and develop new products and features continuouslyWant to have fun building lots and get stuff doneDesirable:Everyone in our team is Poly-skilled in some way, so a mix of these skills would be great, but not essentialProduct management experience, or a desire to get itHTML, CSS and Javascript skills or strong knowledge of front-end web developmentLikely to have played around with tools such as Balsamiq, #URL_1357a8107f51e36414b1b2e8fab60ef86b8c5dcc3613e3865b830819c93bb584# or OmniGraffleSome experience working with dataSome basic programming knowledge, you’ll be working closely with our engineering team

Benefits:
Icing on the cake● Competitive salaries● Conference budgets● Potential stock options in Driftrock● Monthly #drinkrock evenings out● Limited edition, staff-only merch!